Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >>>On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Backup. Backup. Backup. >>>> >>>> I keep my OS on its own hard drive: All my apps *and* data are on >>>> another physical drive. And I have an image of the OS drive (updated >>>> weekly) available at all times. If any update to the OS causes >>>> problems, or even if the drive experiences a catastrophic failure, I >>>> can set everything right in 5 minutes (or 5 minutes after replacing >>>> the HD in the "catastrophic failure" scenario!) >>> >>>It's not sensible to divide up the OS and some application installs, >>>like Photoshop, which install bits in various locations throughout the >>>OS libraries for color management, etc. >> >> It works just fine in practice. > >... perhaps with a different operating system than I use, Mark. I >don't run Windows. I like the integration of how things work with my >configuration of Mac OS X.
With Windows the applications can find their configuration files, ICC profiles, etc even if they're on a different drive, so integration is maintained. I suspect some things may even work marginally faster when files are being read of two drives instead of one. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
